Slurm Monitoring and Accounting Starter

Use this skill to submit a tiny probe job, capture live squeue snapshots while it waits or runs, and then summarize final sacct accounting.

What it does

• Renders and submits a short Slurm batch job.
• Polls squeue to record live queue states.
• Resolves final job accounting through sacct.
• Optionally captures seff output when the command is available on the cluster.

When to use it

• You need a verified starter for Slurm monitoring and post-run accounting.
• You want a reusable pattern for debugging queue state transitions and final resource summaries.

Example

python3 skills/hpc/slurm-monitoring-accounting-starter/scripts/run_slurm_monitoring_accounting.py \
  --partition cpu \
  --job-name monitor-accounting \
  --sleep 2 \
  --out scratch/slurm-monitoring/summary.json

Verification

• Skill-local tests: python3 -m unittest discover -s skills/hpc/slurm-monitoring-accounting-starter/tests -p 'test_*.py'
• Repository smoke: python3 -m unittest tests.smoke.test_phase26_frontier_completion_skills -v